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tait@ @faire @anni @frn L. H. TEARS, OF TROY, ASSIGNOR TO VHIMSELF AND THEODOl-E ILMIFIELD,

- i OF SORANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters .Patent llTo. 70,044, dated October 22, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE HAY-FORKS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, L. I'I TEARS, of Troy, in the county of Bradford, and State of Pennsylvania, lnre invented a new and improved Hay-Forkg and I do hereby declare that the following is afnll, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specificationx The hayi`ork embraced in the present invention consists of two hooks separated by a plate, pointed or dzlrt shaped at one end, all of which are hung to acoinmon centre pin with two hooks se connected to a common bellcrank lever, to which a rope is hung, that by pulling such rope with hooks will be simultaneously drawn in, or, in other words, released from the hay hung thereon.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my'improved hay-fork is illustrated, the figure being a front or face of the fork.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A and B, in the drawings, representtwo hooks that, by their stems C, extend. along thc lat sides or pieces of a common blade or plate, D, one uponleaeh side, to which where, in common with snc-l1 blade, they are hung to a pin, E, so that all three will turn or swing thereon. The end I*1 of the blade D is made of` a dart shape, and its other end G provided with a raised lip, a, upon each edge and in both facesfor the sides of the hookstelns to abut against when turned or swung, as will be hereafter described, and thus to swing the said blade.'

In each stem of the hooks there are slots, b ande, respectively, by one oi' which, b, such stem is hungl to the outer end H of one arm I to a bell-crank levergJ", that, at its angle K, is hung to and in the slot c of' the other hook-stem. Beyond this slot c to the hook-stem the stem is extended, and at thc extreme end has there hung,r to it a pulley,'i\I, aroundwhich a rope passes for raising and lowering the fork. To the arm N of the bcllcrank lever a cord is to be hung, by the pulley of which and through such bell-crank the hooks to the fork will be swung in and4 upon the side or faces of the dart blade and then released from the hay when it has been lcaught t-hercin.

IIavinfar thns described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is- The combination of the hooks A and B with blade D and crank-lover, when arranged, constructed, and connected together substantially as and for the purpose described.

L. II. TEARS.

Witnesses:

BENJ. DonnANeE, R. T. Woon. 

